Ex Parte PURI et al - Page 2

                Appeal 2006-2678                                                                                
                Application 09/235,120                                                                          

           1                                  THE INVENTION                                                     
           2           Appellants’ claimed invention consists of a computer implemented                         
           3    cost tracking and accounting method which includes the step of creating a                       
           4    unique cost source identifier data structure (Specification 11).                                
           5           Claim 1 under appeal reads as follows:                                                   
           6           1.   A computer implemented actual costing method for                                    
           7           collecting and presenting an actual cost of manufacturing an                             
           8           item or performing a service, comprising the steps of:                                   
           9                                                                                                    
          10                 collecting actual costs of performing a job,                                       
          11           manufacturing an item and/or purchasing an item,                                         
          12                                                                                                    
          13                 creating a unique cost source identifier data structure for                        
          14           each collected actual cost, each created cost source identifier                          
          15           data structure including a plurality of attribute fields;                                
          16                                                                                                    
          17                 populating one of the plurality of attribute fields of the                         
          18           created cost source identifier data structure with the collected                         
          19           actual cost;                                                                             
          20                                                                                                    
          21                 storing the populated cost source identifier data structure                        
          22           in a memory of a computer;                                                               
          23                                                                                                    
          24                 associating each unique cost source identifier data                                
          25           structure to a step carried out while manufacturing the item or                          
          26           while performing the service; and                                                        
          27                                                                                                    
          28                 organizing and storing the cost source identifier data                             
          29           structures within the computer as a hierarchical structure that is                       
          30           modeled on:                                                                              
          31                                                                                                    
          32                        a structure of the item manufactured or                                     
          33                                                                                                    
          34                        a sequence of operations carried out while                                  
          35           performing the service;                                                                  

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